Professional Responsibility and Professionalism

Professional Responsibility and Professionalism
Author: Tara Fenwick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131761190X

Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are often held personally accountable for complex situations. Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches to professional responsibility from individual-centred, virtue-based prescriptions towards understanding and responding effectively to the multifaceted challenges encountered today by professionals working in dynamic complexity. The author applies a sociomaterial examination to specific examples drawn from different professional contexts of practice. She examines important implications for what professional responsibility and accountability might mean individually and collectively, and what it might be becoming when demands increasingly conflict, and when we accept that capacities for action are performed into existence in emergent and precarious webs of both human and non-human forces. The chapters explore some of the most prominent questions in professional responsibility, including: What does professional responsibility, and accountability, mean in the escalating complexities and conflicts confronting today’s professionals? How does professional responsibility become developed and enacted, and through what social and material entanglements? How should responsibility be determined in multi-agency and interprofessional practice? What happens when professional decisions are delegated to software algorithms and diagnostic instruments? How are new governing regimes of professional work, such as innovation imperatives, excessive audit and logics of blame and scapegoating, reconfiguring responsibility? How can professionals respond simultaneously to individuals in need, the obligations of their profession, the demands of their employer and an anxious society? A major concern addressed by each chapter, and the book as a whole, is educating professionals in and for responsibility. Specific dilemmas and strategies are offered for educators in universities, workplaces and professional development contexts who seek new approaches to helping professionals learn to critically understand and practise responsibility today. This book will appeal to a wide audience of education researchers and post-graduate students studying professional practice, professionalism and education across a wide range of disciplines. Health professionals, professionals working in private practices, such as law, architecture and engineering, newer professions such as social work and policing, and educational professionals at all levels will find stories and strategies reflecting key issues of their practice in this detailed exploration of professional responsibility and accountability.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession

Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession
Author: Andrew L. Kaufman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 952
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This new edition, a revision of the longest-running professional responsibility title, includes a new author and a new title that emphasizes the two distinctive features of the book. Completely redone by Kaufman and Wilkins with a multitude of new problems, text, and excerpted materials, it still features the popular problems method of the earlier editions. A whole new dimension, however, has been added throughout, and in an additional section that features recent empirical work on lawyers, it examines how large-scale economic, demographic, and institutional changes are likely to shape the norms of legal practice and the careers of lawyers in the twenty-first century. A teacher's manual is available.

Professional Responsibility

Professional Responsibility
Author: Douglas E. Mitchell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319026038

At the center of this book is the complex and perplexing question of how to design professional preparation programs, organizational management practices, public policy systems and robust professional associations committed to and capable of, maintaining confidence, trust and the other hallmarks of responsible professionalism. To do this, we need to rebuild our understanding of professional responsibility from the ground up. We describe how individuals might be prepared to engage in responsible professional service delivery, examine promising options for the reform of professional service systems and finally, outline a reform strategy for improving practice in education and medicine – two essential public services. The nexus of the reform problem in professionalism is establishing a more robust and effective working relationship between teachers and their students; between health care professionals and their patients and between educators and health professionals. Professionalism means acceptance of professional responsibility for student and patient outcomes — not just acceptance of responsibility for technical expertise, but commitment to the social norms of the profession, including trustworthiness and responsibility for client wellbeing. In the past, it may have been sufficient to assume that adequate knowledge can be shaped into standards of professional practice. Today, it is clear that we must take careful account of the ways in which practicing professionals develop, internalize and sustain professionalism during their training, along with the ways in which this commitment to professionalism may be undermined by the regulatory, fiscal, technological, political and emotional incentive systems that impinge on professional workplaces and professional employment systems.

Professional Responsibility in Dentistry

Professional Responsibility in Dentistry
Author: Joseph P. Graskemper
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0470959770

Professional Responsibility in Dentistry: A Practical Guide to Law and Ethics integrates dental law, risk management, professionalism, and ethics, as all are interrelated in everyday practice. Beyond theory, the fact-based approach of this book shows examples of various situations the dentist may face. Dr. Graskemper addresses a range of topics, from legal concepts and regulation of dentistry to professionalism and ethics. He points out specific issues in the practice of dentistry, particularly those that confront new dentists and dentists with new practices. True Cases throughout the book walk readers through real-world examples of complex situations and discuss the proper way to handle them with attention to the legal, ethical, and practice management ramifications. These include patient charting, professional criticisms, child neglect, associateships, patient refunds, and more.

Professional Responsibility

Professional Responsibility
Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Deborah Rhode, 1998 President of the American Association of Law Schools, organizes Professional Responsibility around real-life problems and exercises based on reported cases and commentary to give students needed exposure To The ethical dimensions of lawyering. Divided into two major parts, Professional Responsibility opens with material central to all courses in professional responsibility: Traditions of Moral Reasoning Regulation of the Profession Advocacy the Adversary System Confidentiality Conflicts of Interest Negotiation and Mediation the lawyer-Client Relationship the next part of the book applies this information to specific substantive areas of law: Civil Procedure Constitutional Law Contracts Corporations Criminal Law and Procedure Evidence and Trial Advocacy Family Law Property Tax Torts Extensive cross-referencing emphasizes substantive connections among the chapters and facilitates and integrated approach To The material. Each chapter includes problems leading to cases, commentary, inter disciplinary notes, and references. Rhode devotes careful attention To The Model Code of Professional responsibility And The Model rules Professional Conduct. Instructors will find the full revised Teacher's Manual with its simulation exercises, preparatory notes, questions, background materials, and bibliographic references and extremely helpful teaching tool. Numerous problems and several new simulation exercises highlight this revision. Race, gender, and ethic bias; alternative dispute resolution; and relationships between lawyers in organizational setting are just a few examples of the many timely issues Rhode addresses as she delves into the substantive application of professional ethics.

The Professions

The Professions
Author: Wilbert Ellis Moore
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1970-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1610446712

Discusses the place and position of the professional in society today. Wilbert E. Moore attempts to define the characteristics of the professional and to describe the attributes that give professionals the basis for status and esteem. Dr. Moore maintains that the modern scale of professionalism demands a full-time occupation, commitment to a calling, authenticated membership in a formalized organization, advanced education, service orientation, and autonomy restrained by responsibility. The author discusses the professional's interaction on various levels—with his clients, his peers, his employers, his fellows in complementary occupations, and society at large.

Lawyers' Professional Responsibility

Lawyers' Professional Responsibility
Author: Gino Evan Dal Pont
Publisher:
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2016-09-22
Genre: Attorney and client
ISBN: 9780455239095

Lawyers' Professional Responsibility, sixth edition is a detailed yet accessible treatment of lawyers' legal and professional responsibilities, suitable for students and practitioners alike. This comprehensive book contains detailed footnoting of relevant provisions and rules in each Australian jurisdiction. Lawyers' Professional Responsibility's content and commentary are not confined to developments across Australia, but where relevant includes comparative coverage from the main common law jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. This edition includes content and commentary on the Legal Profession Uniform Law, to date as implemented in New South Wales and Victoria, together with the various uniform rules, for both solicitors and barristers.